#1: Twitter offers scheduled tweets
The folks at Twitter have added the ability to schedule future tweets. To any of you running Facebook pages you’ll know this functionality has been available on Facebook for years and it’s a welcome addition to Twitter.

#2: Becoming a social business: why it often fails
There’s been a lot of talk in the media recently about being a ‘social business’. Too often a business will align this ambition with buying a piece of software like Jive, Yammer, or Confluence and conclude that ‘we’re now social’. In reality, many social business programmes fail. The truth is that to be a social business requires permanent cultural change within an organisation and tends to deliver on softer metrics. There’s no quick fix here and financial returns can be difficult to attribute, especially in the short-term.

#3: IKEA or death
Late last week, a quiz developed by a US agency swept across the internet. It compares the names of IKEA products to death metal bands. Have a go here. The interesting thing is that it isn’t officially connected to IKEA. The ‘old school’ brand reaction to this would be ‘there’s a copyright infringement, take it down’ but brands have now wised up a little and, whilst they might not embrace this kind of thing, they now realise the value of this ‘free’ exposure. Perhaps next week it will be revealed as a cunning publicity plan by IKEA, I sincerely hope not though.